Cape Verde Islands
Authors: Aisling Irwin & Colum Wilson
4th edition • FEBRUARY 2009
336 PAGES • 16 PAGES OF COLOUR PHOTOS • 29 MAPS
ISBN: 978 1 84162 276 7
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Cape Verde is a destination on the up: construction is rocketing, international flight numbers are soaring, and visitor arrivals are rising year on year. As the country prospers, developers are energetically targeting British and Irish second-home investors, while the country also attracts its diaspora of hundreds of thousands who join the tourists in returning for holidays. The fourth edition of this genuinely independent guide covers all the islands of Cape Verde. It provides updated information on Cape Verde's rapidly expanding tourist facilities, a revised natural history section, and helps visitors delve deep into the heart of the country's spectacular landscape, colourful music and unusual people.
• The original guide to Cape Verde now fully updated and revised
• This fourth edition includes a new section on buying property
• Covers every island in detail
• Information on how to plan and execute trips between the islands, particularly on a short timescale
Cape Verde Islands at a Glance
The Cape Verde Islands, once visited by Darwin and Columbus, have in recent times been a well-kept secret among travellers. Nestling in the Atlantic Ocean south of the Canary Islands, this crescent-shaped archipelago is just waiting to be rediscovered. Each of the country's highly individual islands has its own attractions. On the one hand almost empty sandy beaches offer superb watersports; on the other tiny villages cling to the sides of rarely visited volcanoes.
Capital City:
Praia On Santiago
Currency:
Cape Verdean Escudo (CVE)
Language:
Portuguese (official), Creole
International Telephone Code:
+238
ISBN-13: 9781841622767
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"An informative, interesting and stimulating guide... written with knowledge, empathy and humour."
Christopher Fitzgerald, Bath, UK
"Excellent."
Toby Green
"Gives you all the factual information you need, and in addition succeeds in capturing the spirit of Cape Verde."
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"Invaluable - exhaustive - wonderful people..."
David Sellings, Colorado USA
"So much more readable and less formulaic than most other guide books. Good to have a brief 'By Yacht' entry, too."
J. Little, London
"...forms a really good picture of the islands - a great wee book to have."
John Harron, Bangor
"The Cape Verde (Edition 3) was the best travel book I've ever bought. The level of detail was excellent - even down to the price of the bus fare."
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 Background Information
Chapter 2 Practical Information
Chapter 3 Living and Working in Cape Verde
Chapter 4 Sal
Chapter 5 Boavista
Chapter 6 Santiago
Chapter 7 Maio
Chapter 8 Fogo
Chapter 9 Brava
Chapter 10 São Vicente
Chapter 11 Santo Antão
Chapter 12 São Nicolau
Appendix 1 Language
Appendix 2 Further Information
Index
About the Authors
Aisling Irwin is an ex-Daily Telegraph journalist who has been writing about Cape Verde for ten years. Colum Wilson is a specialist in humanitarian aid;he currently advises the UK government on aid to West Africa.
Guidebook Updates
Notes from the Authors
“One of the paradoxes of Cape Verde is a widespread cosmopolitanism which dates from centuries ago, living side by side with poverty and isolation. For generations the young men have gone abroad – to America, to Europe, to the African mainland – because the land cannot sustain them, because their families need money. Back at home their relatives mourn not just the loss of their own sons and husbands but the painful emigrations of generations before. They mourn the particular lot of the Cape Verdean, stranded on outcrops in the Atlantic, abused over the centuries not just by the waves but by many nations..."
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